I've got two separate systems where compiling the nvidia 4496 drivers and running Arjan's RPM test2 smp kernel results in glxinfo informing me that direct rendering is disabled. I've got the patch from minion.de and the nvidia module compiles and loads fine.
If I reboot to 2.4.20-19.9, it works fine so it doesn't seem like the GLX libraries are not installed correctly.
Anyone have it working? I'm using the Makefile.kbuild since the Makefile.nvidia doesn't seem to work at all.
Thanks,
tjb